We’re proud to announce our speakers for our Spring 2020 AIR Seminars. These experts in the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence will share their research on such topics as, intelligent behavior, visual recognition, and computational vision. Please join us as we learn more from these noted researchers from across the country. Charless Fowlkes – […]
Wed@Hariri: Meet Our Fellows Series Speaker: Sanaz Mobasseri, Assistant Professor, Management and Organizations, QST When: Wednesday, January 29, 2019 2:45pm – 4:00pm (Networking and refreshments 2:45pm – 3:00pm, talk 3:00pm – 4:00pm, reception to follow) Where: Questrom Building, 595 Commonwealth Ave, HAR 410 Boston, MA EVENT REGISTRATION Abstract: Conflict between gendered social expectations and conceptions of […]
Wed@Hariri: Meet Our Fellows Series Speaker: James Feigenbaum, Assistant Professor, Economics, College of Arts & Sciences When: Wednesday, January 21, 2019 3:15pm – 5:00pm (Networking and refreshments 3:15pm – 3:40pm in Room 416, talk 3:45pm – 4:30pm in Room 315, reception to follow) Where: Economics Building, 270 Bay State Road, Boston, MA EVENT REGISTRATION […]
In a recent announcement by Red Hat Inc., a team of collaborative researchers from Boston University, Northeastern University, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Red Hat Inc. has been awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems for the development of a national cloud testbed called the Open Cloud […]
Francisco Alarcon, Boston University’s first computational artist-in-residence and a digital artist was featured in a full-length article in BU Today recently. The article covers how he works with students of the College of Engineering and the College of Fine Arts and that he is a unicorn of sorts that can adeptly change “languages” between talking […]
Yesterday, BU Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Hariri Institute for Computing Junior Faculty Fellow, Gianluca Stringhini gave a talk in front of a packed room on his research titled “Computational Methods to Measure and Mitigate Weaponized Online Information.” This talk is part of the Wed@Hariri Talk Series where Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellows share their research with the […]
The Massachusetts Attorney General’s office collaborated with students from BU Spark! and the BU School of Law to develop an app that helps law enforcement recognize labor trafficking. RESULT (Recognize and Evaluate Signs to Uncover Labor Trafficking) is a web-based app that asks a series of questions aimed to identify forced labor and get help for […]
Kate Saenko is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Boston University. She is also the founder and co-director of the Artificial Intelligence Research (AIR) initiative at the Hariri Institute for Computing. Her research interests include Artificial Intelligence with a specific focus on dataset bias, adaptive machine learning, learning for image and language understanding, and deep learning. […]
Doug Densmore, a Hariri Institute for Computing Fellow and a member of the Steering Committee was quoted in an article in Nature magazine titled “An Operating System for the Biology Lab.” The article focused on technology helping to support early disease detection on the basis of drawing blood. Radix Labs, which is a two-year start-up in Cambridge, MA, developed […]
Yesterday, Maria-Florina Balcan, Carnegie Mellon University Associate Professor of Computer Science, gave a talk on her research titled “Machine Learning: New Challenges and Connections.” This talk is part of the Cyber Alliance Distinguished Speaker Series and was held at the Kilachand building. In her presentation, she spoke machine learning’s far-reaching influences. Machine learning is now doing tasks for […]